- Postcode districts
- NR32, NR33
- Nearby
- Stowmarket, Ipswich and Felixstowe
- Guide price
- £1,900–£4,800
- Typical time on site
- 2–4 working days
- Water
- Very hard across most of Suffolk
- Survey
- Free, at your home
What does a cloakroom or downstairs WC cost in Lowestoft?
Guide price in Lowestoft: £1,900–£4,800 including VAT, depending on the room and what you choose. Prices in East of England run at about 6% above the national guide, mainly because of labour rates. The figure depends on the size of the room, whether anything moves, and the products you pick.
Refit
- Existing downstairs WC
Upgrade
- Vanity basin with storage
New cloakroom
- Extractor fan to regulations
Guide prices for Lowestoft including VAT. Your itemised written quote after the free survey is the price that counts.
Working in Lowestoft
As well as Lowestoft itself (NR32 and NR33), we survey in Stowmarket, Ipswich and Felixstowe.
In Lowestoft, as anywhere, the age of the house decides a lot: pipe sizes, floor construction and where the soil stack runs. For a new cloakroom in Lowestoft, the first thing we look at is where the nearest drain or soil stack runs. If the only toilet in your Lowestoft home is upstairs, a cloakroom under the stairs or in the utility can save a lot of trips.
Supplies across most of Suffolk are very hard. Taps, plug wastes and toilet pans scale up quickly, so chrome copes better than matt black, and a removable aerator is worth having. Hardness varies street by street, so check the figure for your postcode with your water supplier.
What the job includes
- Compact sanitaryware: a short-projection, back-to-wall or wall-hung WC and a corner, wall-hung or slim vanity basin
- A survey that checks the headroom under the stairs, the door swing and how the waste will reach the drain
- Strip-out of the old fittings, waste removal and making good on the hall side
- A concealed cistern frame or WC unit where the space allows
Decisions to make first
Macerator or gravity
Gravity drainage is silent and needs no maintenance. A macerator lets a WC go where a pipe could not otherwise fall, provided another WC in the house is on gravity drainage.
Basin
A corner basin fits the tightest rooms. A slim vanity basin with a cupboard underneath gives somewhere to keep spare toilet rolls and soap, and hides the trap.
Rules that apply in England
In England, a new WC connected to the soil stack or drain is drainage work under Part H, and a newly formed cloakroom without an opening window should have mechanical extract; Approved Document F gives 6 litres per second as the design rate for a WC, against 15 for a bathroom. Because a cloakroom has no bath or shower, adding a light to an existing circuit is not notifiable under Part P, but a new circuit is.
